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Holy, Ladislav. Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. v + 237 pp. including tables, figures, notes to chapters, index. $31.50 cloth.
Mann, Kristin. Marrying Well: Marriage, Status and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. vii + 194 pp. including tables, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography and index. $39.50 cloth.
Pitkin, Donald S. The House that Giacomo Built. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. vii + 243 pp. including photographs, notes, index. $29.95 cloth.
Segalen, Martine. Historical Anthropology of the Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. v + 328 pp. including tables, notes, index. Translated by J. C. Whitehouse and Sarah Matthews from the French.